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Atlanta,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, August 03, 2007
I would like to say a few things about LA Weight loss. I worked for this company and was trained to be a counselor and then was promoted to manager. I know how the company works and I'm not happy with how they treat customers. I do want to say I have inside information. I do not wish to be contacted and would like to keep my identity confidential. LA Weight loss makes its money strictly on protein bar sales. Every week each store is contacted by corporate to see how many sales are made. You are "pushed" to sell the bars. The higher the package the better. The higher the store sells the more money is put into the pockets of each manager and assistant manager. Counselors are not given this commission. Counselors are trained to sell the bars. If the counselor can not sell, then a manager or assistant manager is brought in. Regardless of your income and what you can afford to pay. I've seen managers make women cry and feel guilty for not buying the bars. They work off your guilt for being overweight and not taking your weight loss serious. This is what made me quit. The General Manager of one of the stores in MI had done this in front of me to show me how to get a hard sale. The diet itself does work. But if you have been on the weight loss roller coaster you should come to realize it's all down to basics. Watch what you eat, count calories and portion control along with excercise and drinking plenty of water. I was also on the LA weight loss diet but I was allowed to get the bars for free. The bars are a good snack but really no different the any other protein bar in the stores. Just read the package and find one as close the the LA bars as possible. I believe moon bars is one of them. Low calorie and low sugar, high protein. That's it. Now not all managers and assistant managers are bad and will pressure you to buy the bars. One manager I worked with did not agree to pressuring sales. The store was in a high traffic area and could get sales without trying. You ARE NOT obligated to buy the bars and just keep saying NO!! You can still join the program for 5.00 per week. But you will have to pay up front. This is the formula. 5.00 per week X amount of weeks. It takes an average of 2lbs per week to lose weight. That's at a good rate. If someone wants to lose 50lbs you divide 50 by 2 to get 25 weeks. Times that by 5.00 that gives you 125.00 dollars. I believe there are other fee's involved as well such as maintaince weeks and a few others. If you truly want to lose weight then stick to the basics. It's the only thing that works and make it a life style change, not a diet. I've lost 30lbs myself without pills or programs. Stick to your goals, make meal plans, write down what you eat and you will get there. There are plenty of free advice and plans on the internet. Take advantage of it!!